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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Noisy Channel
Aardvark Burrows Out Of Beta
I just received an email from Max Ventilla, CEO of social search startup Aardvark, to let me know that Aardvark is now open to anyone who wants to sign up. Well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Lattice Geometry Privacy Breakthrough
Mark Montgomery writes: ' ... Every once in a while someone's small idea leads to something huge. This could be one of those depending on how it plays out, providing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Tools Analysis
Dan Vesset and Brian McDonough of IDC provide an overview of the state of of Business intelligence tools: 'In 2008, the business intelligence (BI) tools market...
From CSDiary
CIFellows Application Stats Posted
I’ve been pretty busy for the past couple of months, in part because of my involvement as the PI for the CCC’s Computing Innovation Fellows Project. The response...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Status Report
Less than six weeks ago we launched the Computing Innovation Fellows Project.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coupon Strategies Hasten towards Mobile
On the coupon strategies of retail until the day we go all mobile. As newspapers die and fraud continues. ' ... Many retailers had hoped that paper coupons will...
From CSDiary
Star Trek Tech
How much of the technology in Star Trek could become real some day? This was the question posed to a group of faculty members here at Carnegie Mellon Computer Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Confidence vs Expertise
Dan Ariely's blog describes a study where participants were more influenced by confidence versus expertise. Very true, though very often confidence comes from expertise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Martin Lindstrom Newsletter
Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology and Brandsense and one of Time's 100 most influential people, has just started an online newsletter. You can sign up here.site...
From Putting People First
Arup Foresight
Arup’s Drivers of Change initiative is an on-going research programme exploring those issues most likely to have a major impact upon society, on Arup
From Putting People First
Microsoft
Navi Radjou writes on HarvardBusiness.org that he recently visited the Microsoft Research India lab in Bangalore, describes what he learned about their Technology...
From Putting People First
Service Design, a short essay by Jennifer Bove
Service design, while often talked about in academia, is getting more and more attention from design companies and service providers, as the impact of experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generational Baloney?
Controversial, but I liked this. Classification is a powerful tool, but it also is capable at driving a lot of bad conclusions. I may not agree with all of this...
From The Noisy Channel
Student Discount for SIGIR Industry Track
I’m hoping to see many of you at SIGIR 2009 in Boston next month, and specifically at the Industry Track on July 22nd. I wanted to make sure that students were...
From The Noisy Channel
Can Real-Time Search Help Hedge Funds?
I haven’t exactly been generous in my opinons about the widespread obsession with “real-time” search. But in today’s Telegraph there’s at least a story that makes...
From The Noisy Channel
Marti Hearst
Check out Marti Hearst’s new book on Search User Interfaces! You can read my review here. Thanks to Christina for the heads up.
From Putting People First